Harness.



M. I. MAGOON.

" HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED APB-.11, 1910.

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Patented Aug. 2, 1910.

MARIUS I. MAGOON, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA.

HARNESS.

Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1910.

Application filed April 11, 1910. Serial No. 554,617.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Marine I. MAGOON,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Hammond, in the county ofLake and State of Ind1ana, have invented new and useful Improvements inHarness, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to harness, and has for its object to simplify,cheapen and otherwise improve upon harness.

Another object is to provide means for transmitting the force exerted bya team of horses, to a single point between the horses, whereby suchdevices as eveners, whifiletrees and the like may be dispensed with.

To such ends this invention consists in certain novel features of,construction, arrangement and combination of parts, a description ofwhich will be found in the following specification, and the essentialfeatures ofwhich are more particularly pointed out in the claims.

The device is clearly illustrated in the drawings furnished herewith inwhich- Figure 1 is a plan of a harness, embodying my invention, Fig. 2is a front view thereof, Fig. 3 is an inverted plan of a portionthereof, Fig. 4 is a detail, vertical, longitudinal 5 section taken onthe line 4-4 of Fig. 1. and Fig. 5 is a detail,vertical cross sectiontaken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, A, B, represent the two main sections of theharness,

each of which is adapted to be placed upon one of the horses of a team.Inasmuch as both sections are alike, except that one is right and oneleft, I shall proceed to describe one in detail, it being understoodthat such description refers to the other section as well. In eachsection,an L shaped frame 10, is provided, which has a longitudinallyextending arm 11, and a transverse arm 12, that is bowed or curveddownward as shown in Fig. 2, so as not to interfere with the neck of thehorse upon which this portion of the harness is attached. At the outerend of the arm 12, is secured a guide 13, here shown in the form of aneye, and sliding in said guide is a push bar 14, one end of which ispivotally connected with one of the hames 15, as for instance by meansof a bolt 16. The push bar preferably comprises a rod or tube 17, asocket 18, secured upon one end of the tube and afastening device 19,secured u on the other end. A flexible connecting e ement, such as acable, chain or the like 20, is attached to the connecting device 19,and connects the front end of the push bar 14, with the side of thehames 15,

opposite the side to which the push bar is directly attached, and asshown said flexible connecting element 20, passes around pulleys 21, 22,23 and 24, which guide said flexible element in such manner that theforce exerted by the horse against the hames, is

roller 21, is behind the point of attachment of the cable with the pushbar 14, and the roller 24, is behind the point of attachment of thecable with the hames 15, the other rollers 22, 23, being idlers andservin to guide the cable from the roller 21, to the roller 24. It willbe observed that when the horse pushes forward on the hames, the pushbar 14, is pushed forward in the guide 13, thereby pulling upon theadjacent end of the cable, and the opposite end of the cable is pulled.forward by the hames, whereby the pull upon the cable is transmitted tothe frame 10, at the point where thepulley 24, is secured thereto. It isalso apparent that the hames are free to follow the movement of theshoulders of the horse as it steps forward, because the cable works backand forth around the pulleys.

The two harness sections A, B, thus far described are spaced apart bymeans of a spacing bar 25, which comprises sockets 26,

pivotally secured to the longitudinal members 11, of the frames 10, anda tube or rod 27, slidably seated in said sockets. Chains 28, secured tothe rod or tube 27, and frames 10, may be provided to limit the outwardmovement of the rod or tube 27 in the sockets 26. This arrangement ofspacing bar allows a limited amount of movement between the two frames10, of the harness sections A, B. The rear ends of the longitudinal arms11, are connected by a chain 29, and a draft chain 30, extends rearwardfrom the ends of said arms and is trained about a pulley 31, from whichextends a chain 32, which may be attached to the device to be drawnalong the ground. It will be observed that all of the power exertedagainst the hames of the two harness sections will be transmitted to thepulley 31, in the loop of the chain 30, and that in case either horseexerts more effort than the other, the power will still be transmittedto the pulley 31, in the loop of the chain 30.

From the above it will be readily seen that the usual tugs, eveners orwhiliie-trees may be Wholly dispensed with and yet all of the powerexerted by the team brought to a central point. The harness isespecially advantageous for use in drawing plows, harrows described.

I-claim as new and desire to secure by Let-- ters Patent:

1. A harness comprising a pair of harness sections, each section havingan L shaped frame, one arm of which is arranged to extend in front ofthe horse, a push bar guided in the end of the transverse arm of the Lshaped frame, a pair of hames, one of which is secured to the rear endof the push bar, a flexible connecting element secured to the otherhalne and to the forward end of said push bar and pulleys on said Lshaped frames, around which said flexible element is trained, one ofsaid pulleys being located at a point behind the hames.

2. A harness comprising a pair of harness sections, each section havingan L shaped frame, one arm of which is arranged to extend in front ofthe horse, a guide in theend of said transverse arm, a push bar guidedtherein, a pair of hames, one of which is attached to the rear end ofthe push bar, a cable attached to the other hame and to the front end ofthe puslrbar and pulleys on said L shaped frame, around which said cableis trained, one of said pulleys being located at a point behind thehames,

3. A harness, comprising a pair of harness sections, each having an Lshaped frame formed with a downwardly bowed transverse arm, a push barguided in the end of said transverse arm, a pair of hames, one of whichis secured to the rear end of said push bar, a cable secured to theother hame and to the front end of the push bar, and pulleys on said Lshaped frame, around which said cable is trained, one of said pulleysbeing located at a point behind the hames, a strut connecting said Lshaped frames and a flexible connection extending rearward from the rearends of said L shaped frames.

4t. A harness, comprising a pair of harness sections, each having an Lshaped frame formed with a downwardly bowed trans verse arm, a push barguided in the end of said transverse arm, a pair of hames, one of whichis secured to the rear end of said push bar, a cable secured to theother hame and to the front end of the push bar, and pulleys on the Lshaped frame, around which said cable is trained, one of said pulleysbeing located at a point behind the hames, a strut connecting said Lshaped frames, a flexible connection extending rearward from the rearends of said L shaped fames, and a pulley engaging said flexibleconnection.

5. In a harness, the combination with two L shaped frames, pulleysthereon, two

pairs of hames, connecting mechanism between the hames and the L shapedframes, including push bars attached to the outer sides of the hames andcables attached to the inner side of the hames and to the push bars,

.and trained around the pulleys on the frames to points behind thehames, a longitudinally extenslble brace between the frames, a crosschain at the rear of said frames, a chain extending rearward from saidframes and a pulley engaging said rear ardly extending chain.

MARIUS I. MAGOON.

lVitnesses CHARLES O. SHERVEY, ELMER A. VINNEDGE.

